The best movies 1898 Pagina 6

Directed by pioneering Catalan filmmaker Fructuós Gelabert, this short documentary captures the royal visit of Queen Regent María...

Vitagraph’s Battle of Santiago Bay (1898) blended real Spanish–American War footage with tabletop trickery. Albert E. Smith’s...

A skeleton dances joyously, often collapsing into a heap of bones and quickly putting itself back together.

Shows canal running through the suburban village of Santa Anita. Men and women pole their flat-bottom boats along, loaded down with garden produce.

Film adaptation of the famous French folktale by Georges Hatot.

Staging of the title event.

"The fashionable set is parading in the park, after church. The concourse is composed of all nationalities, including several groups of pretty...

New York City welcome to Sampson's Fleet after the Battle of Santiago Bay, Cuba.

A magician performs a series of magic tricks involving a boy and a box.

We see a dozen or so Cubans walking a plank onto a ship.

Rickshaws and pedestrians are moving in the street. Not to be confused with Constant Girel's "Une rue a Tokyo."

First part of a series documenting the Basel carnival.

Members of the PHOTOGRAPHIC CONVENTION carrying tripods and cameras file past a waiting room on the deck of the Clyde steamer "Lady Rowena".

Taken at Fingal, Cal., where the world-renowned 'Sunset Limited' trains pass each other.

Reconstruction, with models, of the explosion of the battleship Maine in Havana. Samir Benhalilou contacted Méliès' granddaughter and...

The film was photographed as if in the audience at a bull fight. No. 3 shows the collapse of the bull.

A family moves a cart across a narrow bridge in front of a windmill in Amsterdam.

A farmer kisses a lean girl.

Backward tracking shot of a train going from Bushey, England, near the end of its journey to Euston.

Boxing scene between two cats held by their master.

A review of engineers at the Longchamp parade, filmed by the Lumière brothers.